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Ancestral Fitness MeetUp: Mark Sisson by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Ancestral / Primal FitnessMeetUp @ Intelligentsia Coffee Bar in Venice Beach today (11/23/09).Pictured:Aaron Blaisdell, Mark Sisson, Chris Owens, and me.Good coffee. Good conv ... Read on »

Army Folklore: Using Fiction & Mythology to Tell Higher Truths by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy ( Above: a very important graphic; a failed social experiment.)Nassim Taleb discusses literature here, noting that he prefers fiction to tell higher truths--the reverse can be ... Read on »

ATP: Aliens, Triangles, and Physicians by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Prelude:Check out Keith Norris' post "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" re: sugar toxicity on Theory to Practice. Then return here...ATP: Aliens, Triangles, and PhysiciansNut ... Read on »

A Lifestyle-Based Co-Op: A Promising Model for Healthcare Financing by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Thanks to Dr. Doug McGuff, author of Body by Science, an excellent conversation emerged in the comments section to my recent essay, " Black Swan Health Policy: What's in ... Read on »

Making the Unseen Seen: We all can be scientists in the art of self-experimenting by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Scientistsseek the unknown: they venture into the unlit, unexplored caverns of our world by conducting experiments to learn more about how the universe, including all of its i ... Read on »

Black Swan Health Policy: What's in a Domain? by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What's in a domain (name)? Hopefully, a bit of Black Swanhealth policy. Of course, I know it's a dream; a dream to make the unseenseen. But I do own a domain (thanks to Navani ... Read on »

Thinkering: A New Model for Biotechnology by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy There's a Biomedical Mutual Organization (BMO) taking shape.I suspect William Baines and Seth Roberts would agree.It may still be in the start-up stages, but it's building mom ... Read on »

I interviewed Dr. Siegal of the Cookie Diet ... by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Above: My lunch from the Tee'd Off at Cancer charity golf tournament that I played in recently. I was Tee'd Off at this lunch (so I just played stellar golf to vent off my ste ... Read on »

Part 3: Interview Series with Aaron Blaisdell of UCLA by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The much anticipated Part III... and the plot thickens.Part I & Part IIKP = Kai PottengerAB = Aaron BlaisdellKP: In what ways does your research shape your perception of h ... Read on »

n=1 Self-Experimentation Positioning: How to Not be Fooled by Randomness by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Living in a world that we don't understand is a humbling, human endeavor. The history of science and the history of medicine teach us that causation is murky, at best, and tha ... Read on »

n=1 Self-Experimentation Positioning: How to Not be Fooled by Randomness by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Living in a world that we don't understand is a humbling, human endeavor. The history of science and the history of medicine teach us that causation is murky, at best, and tha ... Read on »

Nutritional Bricolage - BIL:PIL 2009 by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy ( Above: My friend, Stephen Cheung, and me post- BIL:PIL ) Stephen and I recently completed our Master ofHealthAdministration (MHA) degrees at the University ofSouthernCalifor ... Read on »

Proverbial Knowledge: Clinical Wisdom in the Art of Living as a 'Patient of One' by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy An epistemocrat is a 'Patient of One'clinician in the practice of 'n=1' philosophy, in the bricolage (and meritage) of self-experiments (clinical trials) with lifestyle design ... Read on »

Anecdotal Evidence: Gio Carmazzi's Self-Experiment with Ancestral Fitness by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy ( Above:Gio Carmazzi shares his 'n=1'Ancestral Fitness self-experimentation experience)Gio was picked in the 3rd round of the 2000 NFL draft by the San Francisco 49'ers ( read ... Read on »

Sharing Ancestral Fitness with Youth by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I spoke to a small group of students at a football camp this morning about Ancestral Fitness.The message that many modern foods and drinks, such as soft drinks, have only 'bee ... Read on »

Ancestral Fitness Meet Up: Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Venice Beach by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [ Above: (L) Chris Owens ( @SingleOrigin ); (M) Aaron Blaisdell ( PigeonRat Professor of Psychology @UCLA ); and, (R) me ( @epistemocrat )]I enjoyed an awesome, relaxing Ances ... Read on »

Healthcare Epistemocrat interviews at University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine by epistemocrat Health Maven

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Essay Mythologizing: Exploring the Unknown by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I write. With no end in sight.I simply type, but I never know if I am right.I just feel compelled to type; to write; to set things right.When your modus operandi is negative e ... Read on »

Comment Highlight: Insights from Jeff Erno by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [ Above: In case you missed it, (click) here is the link to my recent interview on OurBlook. Sandy Ordonez interviewed me; she did a fabulous job.] In this spirit, I want to s ... Read on »

Ancestral Fitness: An Anti-Health Insurance Co-Op for the Ancestral Fitness Epistemocracy (AFE) by epistemocrat Health Maven

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Above: My Cooling Inflammation self-experimental progress over the past year. Zooming out like this--in terms of tiling pictures of my face over time as Qualitative-Self data ... Read on »

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